February 2020
‘Witches brew’ of a subordinate space corps
...forward almost five decades, President Trump announced his newly proposed military branch – a US Space Force. “It is not merely...espoused in 2019 with respect to the creation of a new military branch – the Space Force – is unfortunately 180 degrees out...
April 2025
Racing to the Moon
... designs break new ground and are no longer direct copies of Western technology. As in spaceflight, money for the military appears to be no object. The elephant in the room, of course, is the return of Donald Trump to the world stage. It is unclear...
September 2025
Iran’s ascent - a space power in the shadow of sanctions
... Europe. In this revealing analysis, veteran space writer Brian Harvey explores the evolution of Iran’s civil and military space capabilities, its complex international partnerships, and the strategic motivations driving its cosmic ambitions – many...
March 2016
From Sanctuary to Battlefield
... of missions than orbital assets. Along these lines, last year the US Secretary of Defense called for the military to reduce its dependence on the increasingly vulnerable Global Positioning System (GPS) constellation. While it makes sense to reduce...
November 2018
Why we should not assume that war in space is ‘inevitable’
... create a ‘Space Force’ as the sixth branch of the US military. The President explained that: “We are going to have the Air ... s BeiDou-3 a navigation satellite with both civilian and military capability, launched in January 2018. No doubt there are...
May 2020
Iran - emerging space state or threat to world peace?
... bilateral and multilateral sanctions. As a result, Iran no longer has financial reserves to buy weapons abroad, such as modern military aircraft, and is restricted from doing so anyway. By contrast, Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates...
